Don't ignore CIA's past activities

While it's convenient to argue that the U.S. intelligence services like the CIA and FBI are involved in a moral and just war against Islamists who seek "world domination" through "methods of terror" and the "horrific slaughter of innocents around the world," let's not forget the other side to the history of our intelligence agencies.

In 1953, the CIA paid thugs and mobsters to enter Tehran and overthrow the democratically elected government of Iran and helped put in power an authoritarian monarch and military government. The ousted leader was jailed and put under house arrest for the rest of his life, and his followers were rounded up, imprisoned, or tortured. Between 300-800 people were killed because of the conflict. In 1954, the CIA deposed President Jacobo Arbenz Guzman in Guatemala because his land reforms in favor of peasants threatened the monopoly of the United Fruit Co., an American multinational corporation that owned 42 percent of arable Guatamalan land (this provoked the Guatamalan Civil War which killed 140,000-250,000). The list goes on. 1964, Brazil. 1973, Chile. 1981, Nicaragua. The Iraq War? Afghanistan? Who is slaughtering innocents, exactly? Who is engaged in acts of terror?